Actually, I moved away from the Discovery channel when they went biker. Use to watch it all the time but when things like turning old airplanes into art, mythbusters, and the like showed up, talk about watching participation nosediving. Use to tune in regularly for New Detectives, FBI Files.
These days, I'll go for the "Planet Earth" type shows, but most of their other stuff doesn't interest me at all. Are boys really suppose to be that dumb?
As far as the "educational channels" go, none of them are perfect, even PBS. I mean, when the voice over talks about the war in the Pacific with American fleetboats but then shows a German U-Boat or talks of WWII ships but then show's a command ship post WWII, it gets irritating to say the least. Like the time when the History channel narration was talking about Soviet nuc boats but the picture shows a fleet of Foxtrots.
These days I've learned that while data may be infomartive, don't put money on it unless one can dig it up in writing that such is actually true.
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(After Ops and Walter do a slight shout out. "Can we break away from the male bonding and concentrate on the real issue here?"--Madeline, (w,stte), La Femme Nikita "War")